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J. W. KELLBERG.

Churn.

No. 30,409. Patented Oct. 16, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. KELLBERG, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHURN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,409, dated October 16, 1860.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. KELLBERG, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oliurns; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

I am aware that quite a variety of plans have been devised, for causing air to pass through the cream during the process of churning; I am also aware that plans have been invented for rubbing the butter out or churning by friction ,-and I am of the opinion that the old vertical dasher churn embodied both of these principles, but very imperfectly. In my invention I have endeavored to carry out this idea in the most simple form possible, and I hope it will do no harm for me to state here, that I have made a churn on this plan, which will com plete a churning in from four to six minutes.

Figure l is a sectional view of my churn. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the lid removed.

The same letters refer to like parts on both drawings.

a is a bevel wheel driving the pinion b, and hanging on shaft c, to be operated by crank CZ; c is a stand for the bearings of shaft c; g is the body of the churn, and f is the lid of it; t is a tubular shaft terminating with plate la, and plate 7c is connected with plate 7c by three curved wings or paddles Z, Z, Z. Said paddles are continued a portion ofil and on a line nearly parallel with the circumference of the churn.

i is a disk with an opening in its center, intended to form a barrier for the cream to be thrown against, forming a friction surface like the bottom of the churn. Said disk z' should be fastened to prevent it from revolving.

a, a, are openings through plate 7c, to allow the cream to flow back into the bodv of the centrifugal dasher, and also to afford an additional supply of air.

m is a step or center upon which the said dasher revolves.

o, o, are ribs on the top of plate 70 and bottom of 7c.

The operation of my churn may be described thus, viz: When the shaft 71, is made to revolve quickly the curved wings cause the cream to be thrown from the center to the circumference of the churn with so much force as to create a large amount of friction when it is being pressed between the wing or dasher extensions and the sides of the churn, and at the same time a strong current of air is carried through the body of the cream, and any cream that is forced out over the disk c', flows back into the center to be worked over.

l/Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The dasher and disk, made and operating substantially as described.

JOHN W'. KELLBERG.

Witnesses:

D. A. MORRIS, I. DONALDSON. 

